Longboat Key (Fla.)

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Name (Latin)
Longboat Key (Fla.)
Other forms of name
nnaa Longboat Key, Fla
Coordinates
-82.64472222 -82.64472222 27.39694444 27.39694444 (gooearth )
W0823932 W0823932 N0272445 N0272445 (geonames )
See Also From tracing place name
Longbeach (Fla.)
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

VIAF: 159461034
Wikidata: Q993809
Library of congress: n 81132445
Sources of Information
  • GeoNames, algorithmically matched, 2009(ppl; 27°24ʹ45ʺN 082°39ʹ32ʺW)
  • Marsh, O. G. H. History of the United States postal ... 1962.
  • Whitney, L. C. Hail this feisty village!, c1984:p. 111 (On 11/15/55 Longboat Key became a municipality by approving the incorporation of Longbeach and Longboat Key into the Town of Longboat Key)

Wikipedia description:

Longboat Key is a town in Manatee and Sarasota counties along the central west coast of the U.S. state of Florida, located on and coterminous with the barrier island of the same name. Longboat Key is south of Anna Maria Island, between Sarasota Bay and the Gulf of Mexico. It is almost equally divided between Manatee and Sarasota counties. The town of Longboat Key was incorporated in 1955 and is part of the North Port-Bradenton-Sarasota, Florida Metropolitan Statistical Area. The town's population was 7,505 at the 2020 census, up from 6,888 at the 2010 census.

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